February 7, 2008 | Read Time: 1 minute
This year’s Nonprofit Technology Conference, which in 2007 drew 1,200 charity technology officials, consultants, and company representatives, will take place March 19-21 in New Orleans. The meeting, entitled “Building Community: Connections Around the Globe and Around the Corner,” is organized by the Nonprofit Technology Network, in San Francisco.
Sessions at the conference will focus on topics such as Internet fund raising, communications strategies for social networks, fund raising on mobile phones, and using technology in evaluation.
The winners of the second annual DoGooderTV NonProfit Video Awards will be announced at the conference.
The competition is designed to highlight nonprofit organizations’ use of online video and animation for social change. The grand-prize winner will receive an all-expenses-paid trip to the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference. The deadline for submissions is February 15.
Following the conference, Penguin Day New Orleans, on March 22, will bring together nonprofit leaders and computer programmers to discuss the opportunities and challenges involved in using free and open-source software. (The name is a nod to Linux, one of the early companies to adopt this software model, and its penguin mascot.)
The event is organized by Aspiration, a San Francisco nonprofit group that seeks to connect charities to good-quality, low-cost tools that help them do their work, and the NonProfit Open Source Initiative.
For more information on the Nonprofit Technology Conference: Go to http://nten.org/ntc.
For more information on the video contest: Go to http://www.dogooder.tv/nonprofitvideoawards.
For more information on Penguin Day New Orleans: Go to http://www.penguinday.org.
